Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be.

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.